Ben Mycelis

This was a plus 17 Trump district in 2024.

I mean, Trump endorsed over and over again.

I know her.

I support her.

She's amazing.

Don't let me down.

Make sure you elect her.

I mean, messages profusely endorsing her over and over again.

She loses.

No one expected it.

MAGA Republicans put $2.5 million into that race, which was basically 2.5 million more than the Democrats put in there.

And it wasn't a low voter turnout issue.

It was that independents almost all went Democrat, which is what we've been seeing in a lot of these special elections.

And a good chunk of Republicans voted Democrat.

You had the Democratic candidate remit.

He was talking about workers' rights, affordability, kitchen table issues, the MAGA candidate, social issues, and I'm here to be Donald Trump's rubber stamp.

And the people of Texas State Senate District 9 rejected it.

And what's really important, I think, as well,

Because Trump and Abbott gerrymandered Texas the way they did, believing they would create five new Republican congressional seats there, in order to do that, you have to dilute and remove people from existing Republican seats to try to get rid of the blue seats.

So seats that were maybe plus 16, you may reduce them to plus eight in order to turn a Democratic seat into say a plus four or five Republican, because you have to remove people and put people in other districts.